Judge orders Trump's attorney to testify in classified documents investigation

[onthedarkside]

 

Donald Trump's attorney must testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating the former president's retention of documents with classified markings, a federal judge secretly ruled on Friday, according to two sources familiar with the proceedings. 

 

The attorney, Evan Corcoran, previously refused to answer questions from investigators about his conversations with Trump over attorney-client privilege concerns.

 

Prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office wanted to ask Corcoran about an alleged call he had with Trump on June 24, 2022, around the time investigators were seeking to secure documents at Trump's home and video surveillance tapes of Mar-a-Lago, a source previously told CBS news last week.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-attorney-evan-corcoran-ordered-testify-classified-documents-investigation/

 

[Chomper Higgot]

Crime fraud exception, the Client Attorney Privilege yields.

 

So what’s it going to be, the Fifth or tell the truth?

 

[Yellowtail]

Trump will appeal and win 

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2 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Trump will appeal and win 

Because his legal appeals have been mostly successful until now?

[Chomper Higgot]

2 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Trump will appeal and win 

I have little doubt he’ll appeal, but win?

 

Appeals against Grand Jury Subpoenas are processed very quickly, so we’ll soon find out. 

[Chomper Higgot]

A bit of back ground to this.

 

Trump’s legal team submitted a signed statement (letter) stating all classified documents had been returned.

 

The FBI clearly knew otherwise and obtained a search warrant ( therefore had evidence to back the warrant) and recovered multiple boxes of classified documents.

 

The legal statement, letter, had been signed by Attorney Christina Bobb, who when questioned revealed she had been instructed to sign the statement by Evan Corcoran, despite she herself not having taken part in any search.

 

The use of Bobb as the signatory has provided the FBI with an Attorney who has committed the crime of making a false statement in matters relating to an investigation into theft/removal/concealment of classified documents AND a witness against Corcoran.

 

The evidence supportive of the ‘Crime Fraud Exception’ is very clear, fraudulent statements in documents signed by an Attorney, testimony of collusion and subsequent evidence of Classified Documents recovered.

 

As so often, it’s the cover up that reveals the crime.

 

Good luck taking that to appeal.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/10/trump-lawyer-christina-bobb-mar-a-lago-certify-documents

 

 

Edited March 20, 2023 by Chomper Higgot

[klauskunkel]

2 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

Trump will appeal and win 

That means in your mind he lost his case already... Well, I agree with that.

Winning a future appeal, nah, not so much.